The Missouri Trail

An incident that happened when she was nine severed Hope from loving relatives on her mother’s side of the family. The mystery of this abandonment, which sentenced her and her parents to life in a shabby Detroit neighborhood, colored her growing-up years.

When a call from an all-but-forgotten aunt brings news of the death of Lily, the grandmother Hope remembers from that long-ago childhood, old memories and hurts she thought she had buried rise up again.

In The Missouri Trail, Hope returns to...